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Swarthmore College has responded to a lawsuit filed by transient track and field athlete Evelyn -Parts that claim that the school removed parts from the women’s team after NCAA changed its rules to ban men from competing in women’s sports, but later added parts back to the team despite the new rules.
Parts filed the trial this week and became the third trans athlete in a month to sue an American college to be removed from a women’s team.
Swarthmore made a statement to Pakinomist Digital in response to parts’ lawsuits and the specific accusations of adding parts back to the team after NCAA changed its rules.
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“Swarthmore deeply appreciates our transient members of society and the many ways they enrich the campus life. We offer several resources to create a welcoming, supportive and inclusive environment for transient individuals. We acknowledge that this is a particularly difficult and painful time for members of the transcend society, including student athletes,” the declaration states.
“We worked to support Evie -Parts in a time of rapidly evolving guidance while we balanced the ability of other members of the woman’s banquet team to compete in NCAA events. Given the pending trial, we will not comment further.”
The former Upenn -Swimmer reflects on being teammates with Lia Thomas
Parts claimed the school said that parts could no longer compete for women’s teams in February, the same month NCAA changed its gender eligibility policy after president Donald Trump Signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order.
Shared lawsuits also claim that the Trans athlete was “fully reinstated” to Swarthmore Women’s Track Team 11 April. Parts claim to have been allowed to compete for women’s teams until they were trained in May, even after politicians and Trump’s executive order came into force.
Parts are listed as the winner of the women’s 10,000 meters at Bill Butler Invitational in April and as a participant in Paul Donahue invites the same month and the Centennial Championships in early May, according to the athlete’s Swarthmore Athletics page.
Shared attorney, Susie Cirilli, previously delivered a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which addresses the trial.
“We stand by the claims in the complaint. As mentioned in the complaint, NCAA is a private organization that issued a great policy. Swarthmore chose to follow this policy and disregard federal and state law,” Cirilli said.
Swarthmore would not be the first school to allow a biological man to compete in women’s sports according to the NCAA rule if the allegations are correct.
Ithaca College in New York admitted to having allowed a trans athlete to compete in a Division III Rowing competition in March. Trans -Athlet competed in Cayuga -Duals, but only in the third varsity eight event that is not included in NCAA Championship qualification.
Ithaca made a statement to Pakinomist Digital that said the participation of the translation was due to a “misunderstanding” of the coaching staff.
NCAA made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which addressed Ithaca’s violation of the policy.
“The policy is aware that there are no exceptions available and students who are assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team with changed birth certificates or other forms of ID,” NCAA said.
“If competition arises, the team will be considered a mixed team and not entitled to compete against women’s teams. Ithaca said their intention to comply with the policy, which allows for practice opportunities and NCAA appreciates Ithaca’s responsiveness.”
NCAA did not indicate whether the results of the event would be canceled or whether Ithaca would have any consequences.
Former President Joe Biden had an executive order in place that protected Trans athletes’ rights to compete in women’s sports, and NCAA’s previous politics activated Trans athletes. Participation from the former University of Pennsylvania Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas and the former San Jose State Trans Volleyball player Blaire Fleming received several lawsuits against these institutions and NCAA, led by Riley Gaines, Brooe Slusser and several former Upenn -Kvinde’s swimmers.
Trans athlete Sadie Schreiner, who Cirilli also represents in a lawsuit against Princeton University, was previously allowed to compete for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s (Rit) woman’s freedom of freedom for two years before the NCAA rule’s rule to change. Former Rit Women’s track Runner Caroline Hill joined Gaines’ lawsuit against NCAA with reference to her experience of competing with and sharing a dressing room with Schreiner.
Trump’s Institute for Education has already taken steps towards several universities over events with transiking in women’s sports before Trump’s executive order. Doe reached an agreement with Upenn on Thomas’ participation in women’s swimming in early July. The university agreed to expel transport’s records and apologize for all the female athletes affected by Thomas’ presence on the women’s team.
Earlier in August, Doe reached an agreement with Wagner College on a similar decision on the former Trans Fencer Redmond Sullivan.
Doe’s study by San Jose State on the flooding controversy is ongoing.
Pakinomist Digital has reached NCAA for comment on parts’ trial.
